Historical Visual Cultures
Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol
Historical Visual Cultures Research Workshop, 2006-7
Convenor: Dr. Josie McLellan, Historical Studies
This workshop brings together researchers from across the University and beyond who work on aspects of historical visual culture. Individual researchers working on visual culture will have the chance to develop links and discuss issues with like-minded colleagues. It will encourage dialogue and collaboration across disciplines, time periods, and between neighbouring universities. We hope to establish a critical mass of researchers working on visual culture to take this research agenda forward. Our programme includes visits from leading scholars of visual culture, but we are also keen to foster dialogue and collaboration through more informal means.
ALL WELCOME, especially postgraduate students.
Please contact Josie.McLellan@bris.ac.uk for further details.
Unless otherwise specified, all meetings will take place in the Verdon-Smith Room of the Institute for Advanced Studies, and start at 1.10 pm.
For directions to the venue, please see:
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/ias/precinctmap.html
31 October 2006: School of Humanities Research Seminar
Panel discussion on ‘Visual Culture and the Humanities’: Josie McLellan (Chair), Tim Cole, Pamela King, Shelley Hales, John Kieschnick
NB This seminar takes place in the Enderby Room, Physics Building, Tyndalls Avenue, and will start at 4.15 pm
3 November 2006: One day Bristol-UWE workshop on visual culture research
This event will explore ongoing work on visual culture at the Universities of Bristol and the West of England. Speakers will give short, informal presentations on their work-in-progress. All are welcome and coffee and lunch will be served. If you would like to attend, please email Josie.McLellan@bris.ac.uk
11.15-11.30 Coffee
11.30-11.45 Sarah Street, Drama, Bristol
11.45-12.00 Andrew Spicer, Art, Media and Design, UWE
12.00-12.15 Rachel Sutton-Spence, Deaf Studies, Bristol
12.15-12.30 Michelle Henning, Cultural Studies, UWE
12.30-12.45 Chris MacLeod, Historical Studies, Bristol
12.45-1.00 Shelley Hales, Classics and Ancient History, Bristol
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-2.15 Clare Johnson, Art, Media and Design, UWE
2.15-2.30 Anne Simon, German, Bristol
2.30-2.45 Sue Tate, Art, Media and Design, UWE
2.45-3.00 Roland Baddeley, Experimental Psychology, Bristol
3.00-3.15 Martin Lister, Cultural Studies, UWE
3.15-3.30 Josie McLellan, Historical Studies, Bristol
3.30-3.45 Norman Freeman, Experimental Psychology, Bristol
3.45-4.00 James Thompson, Historical Studies, Bristol
15 November 2006:
***In collaboration with the IAS Research Workshop “Ideas and Universities”***
Dr. William Whyte, St. John’s College, Oxford
'From Redbrick to Plateglass: Architecture and the idea of a university in England, 1900-1970'
29 November 2006
Dr. David Crowley, Royal College of Art, London
'Socialist recreation? Amateur Film and Photography in the People's Republic of Poland and the GDR'
30 November 2006
Visual Culture or Art History?
Rose Cooper, Undergraduate Portfolio Director for Media and Film at Sheffield Hallam University
Taking place at Waterside 1
13 December 2006
Sexual Difference in Visual Culture: Methods of Thinking About Difference. Claire Pajaczkowska, Reader in Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture in the School of Arts and Education at Middlesex University and author of Feminist Visual Culture (2000)
Taking place at Waterside 1
24 January 2007
Reading group meeting
Elaine Scarry, ‘On Beauty and Being Just’
Available online at: http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/scarry00.pdf
February 2007
One day conference on "Cities: Narratives of Historical Representation and Physical Destruction": date tbc
14 February 2007
Reading group meeting
Susanne Lewis, Reading Images. Narrative Discourse and Reception in the Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Apocalypse (CUP, 1995).
Email Josie.McLellan@bris.ac.uk if you would like a copy of the reading for any or all of the sessions.
21 February 2007
Professor Elizabeth Edwards, University of the Arts, London
‘A credit to yourself and your country”: Public history and the Photographic Survey Movement 1890-1914.’
7 March 2007
Reading group meeting
Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin Buchloh, Art since 1900: modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism (Thames and Hudson, 2004).
Email Josie.McLellan@bris.ac.uk if you would like a copy of the reading for any or all of the sessions.
21 March 2007 **CANCELLED**
Reading group meeting
Margaret Livingstone, Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing (Harry N. Abrams, 2002).
Email Josie.McLellan@bris.ac.uk if you would like a copy of the reading for any or all of the sessions.
25 April 2007
Professor Paul Binski, Cambridge
'Gothic Architecture, Authorship, and Scholasticism'
16 May 2007
Professor Lynda Nead, Birkbeck
'Strip: Moving Bodies in the 1890s'
17 May 2007
One-day conference on spectatorship in medieval culture.
8 June 2007
One-day conference on visual culture in twentieth century Germany